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MEMORANDUM TO: Mark A. Cunningham, Director Division of Risk Assessment Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation THRU: FROM: SUBJECT: Daniel M. Frumkin, Team Leader Fire Protection Branch Division of Risk Assessment Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Stephanie Weimer, Student Engineer Fire Protection Branch Division of Risk Assessment Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation CLOSURE OF FIRE PROTECTION EXEMPTION DATABASE The purpose of this memorandum is to document the closure to Task 7, “Exemption Database,” of SECY-08-0171, “Plan for Stabilizing Fire Protection Regulatory Infrastructure.” The Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report 08-747, “Nuclear Safety: Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Oversight of Fire Protection at U.S. Commercial Nuclear Reactor Units Could Be Strengthened,” June 2008, included a recommendation to, “develop a central database for tracking the status of exemptions.” The Chairman responded regarding the GAO report in a letter to Congress dated, September 11, 2008, committing to, “develop a centralized database of fire protection exemptions for operating nuclear reactors.” The staff has completed Commission commitment, “Developing guidelines for updating this exemption database” for Task 7. Enclosure 1 of this memorandum outlines activities that the staff completed to close out Task 7. As described in Enclosure 1 of this memorandum, the database was created and put in Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) December 2009, located at ML093560120. For convenience, Enclosure 2 of this memorandum is the updated exemption database. A link to the exemption database can be found on the external fire protection webpage located at ‘http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/fire-protection.html’. Having exemption documents in ADAMS makes the exemption information available both to the regional and site inspectors and also to public stakeholders. Exemptions for decommissioned plants were not included in the database. The Fire Protection Stabilization Plan will be updated during its next revision to show this task as completed. DISTRIBUTION: AFPB NRO/SFPB RES/FRB DRoberts, RGN I KKennedy, RGN II ABoland, RGN III KWest, RGN III RCaniano, RGN IV CAder CLui BSosa MGalloway SWeerakkody JRogge, RGN I RNease, RGN II RDaley, RGN III NO’Keefe, RGN IV ADAMS Accession No.: ML100200007 *via email OFFICE NRR/DRA/AFPB NRR/DRA/AFPB NRR/DRA/AFPB DD:NRR/DRA NAME SWeimer DFrumkin * AKlein SWeerakkody DATE 03/11/10 03/26/10 04/ 22/10 04/15/10 OFFICIAL RECORD COPY
TASK 7 COMMISSION COMMITMENTS 1. Collect Data on Fire Protection Exemptions (6/2009) Related Documents Closure Memo – ML091760888 To meet this Commission commitment, the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) staff found past Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations Part 50, Appendix R (Appendix R) exemptions based on the FIREDAT database. FIREDAT is a database of fire protection exemptions created to support NRR staff reviews. The FIREDAT database was kept current until 2002. As part of Task 7, NRR staff created a new database with information from the FIREDAT database and the post-2002 exemptions which were already in Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS). To ensure confidence that FIREDAT was kept current prior to 2002, ADAMS Legacy Library was searched for any exemptions not included in FIREDAT. In addition to searching ADAMS Legacy Library, NRR staff was asked to review the compiled list of exemptions for any missing documents. The FIREDAT database is non-public however; FIREDAT is superseded by the new exemption database and updated ADAMS profiles. Numerous exemptions referenced in the FIREDAT database had not been uploaded into ADAMS because they predated ADAMS. Exemptions that were not in ADAMS were scanned from the file copies, uploaded into ADAMS and profiled. The staff has identified 143 approved exemption documents that contain Appendix R exemptions. In most cases, there were multiple exemptions in each document. NRR staff completed Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information (SUNSI) reviews on documents added into ADAMS, and these exemptions are publicly available. The staff issued a memorandum closing out Commission commitment, “Collect Data on Fire Protection Exemptions,” in June 2009, and can be found in ADAMS as ML091760888. 2. Complete Development of Database (12/2009) Related Documents Exemption Spreadsheet: ML093570183 Initial Exemption Database: ML091760888 Updated Exemption Database: Enclosure 2 of this memo To meet this Commission commitment, NRR staff placed the exemption documents into a folder in ADAMS. This folder was then used to create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet of information, and is available to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff at ML093570183. The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is not publicly available at this time because in ADAMS an Excel spreadsheet cannot be made into a Portable Document Format. However, the only information from the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet not included in the enclosed database are profile keywords and Docket Numbers. The keywords are listed below and the Docket Numbers coincide with Plant Names, which are given in the database. The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is searchable by Plant Name, Accession Number, Document Date, Title, and Docket Number. Information from the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet was then used to create the exemption database. Microsoft Access was used as a tool to generate the database, which is enclosure 2 of this memorandum. Since the information is directly from ADAMS, typographical errors exist ENCLOSURE 1
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